[Vm-dev] Separating launcher from VM binaries

K K Subbu kksubbu.ml at gmail.com
Tue Apr 16 16:04:09 UTC 2019


Hi,

In working with Squeak images of different formats and word sizes, I 
find myself struggling with a bunch of scripts - run, squeak, squeak64, 
cog, cog64, spur, spur64 etc and having to update the run script 
whenever a new format comes out. There should be simpler way .....

It would be nice to separate the main programs - launcher(squeak) and 
ckformat - from the VMs that read specific image formats.

VMs could be generated with base format built into the name or path e.g. 
lib/$VER/$BASE/ostvm or lib/$BASE/$VER/ostvm

The main launcher (squeak) will probe and launch a matching VM with 
something like:

    lib/$VER/$(ckformat $IMAGE)/$VMNAME $ARG

without having to find out the exact format number. This will enable 
multiple format VMs to co-exist in a machine without having to change 
PATH settings etc.

Regards .. Subbu


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